Why Choose ISE?
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Top-Notch Faculty
ISE students have access to award-winning faculty who maintain outstanding standards in teaching and research. Class sizes in ISE are small and both graduate and undergraduate students are invited to participate in faculty research projects. Experts in their fields, our faculty are consistently awarded both research funding and prestigious honors. | Read More >>
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Cutting-Edge Reseach
Our research spans a wide range of areas, including risk management, homeland preparedness, transportation safety and security, health care research, decision making and uncertainty, agile manufacturing, inclusive design, geographic informations systems, and supply chain management. Departmental research is well-funded by federal, state, and industrial sponsors, and several of our faculty work in interdisciplinary and newly emerging fields, such as neuroergonomics and service systems engineering. | Read More >>
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A Close-Knit Department
We are a small, close-knit department, which allows for a special kind of camaraderie between students and faculty. The research and social environment is active and friendly; our students consistently give the faculty and staff high marks for their open-door policy.
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Established and Growing
ISE was one of the founding departments of UB's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences in 1946. From these early beginnings, we have become a highly projective department with a strong national reputation. We offer programs spanning the broad field of industrial and systems engineering, and are continuing to hire new faculty as part of our ongoing vision of excellence for this department. | Watch Video >>
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Research Centers
Our centers, labs, and research groups provide numerous opportunites for state-of-the-art research.
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Career Moves
Industrial engineering graduates command high salaries. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Outlook Handbook, the starting IE B.S. salary in 2007 was over $55,000 and was over $65,000 for a starting M.S. The median income for all IEs was over $68,000. | Read more >>
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Research Funding and Sponsors
Over the past three years (2004-07), our faculty has been awarded a total of $14.5 million in research grants and contracts. Despite our relatively small size, the department was ranked 9th in the country for faculty scholarly productivity, according to the 2007 Academic Analytics Index of Faculty Scholarly Productivity. U.S. News & World Report ranks us 27th in America's Best Graduate Schools 2008 in the Industrial/Manufacturing Engineering Specialty. | Read more >>
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Industry Connections
Our industry partners include:
- Boeing
- CUBRC (Calspan-UB Research Center)
- Erie County Medical Center
- General Motors
- Lockheed Martin
- Motorola
- Praxair
- United Airlines
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Multidisciplinary
Our students are uniquely poised for creative interaction with a variety of academic disciplines, including geography, architecture, management, and mechanical and aerospace engineering.
Industrial engineers apply engineering principles to design and manage the systems made of people, computers, machines, materials, information, and energy, in order to produce the goods and services critical to the economy. They integrate specialized knowledge and skills in the mathematical, physical, and social sciences in order to specify, predict, and evaluate the results obtained from such systems.